Python on the Power PC

[Peter Milliken]

Unfortunately I am completely new to using the Pocket PC - the Python error
message appear to come up in 2 "waves" or screens - the first screen
contains the error message re can't find tkinter and is only visible for a
fraction of a second (repeated running and trying to get the eyes to focus
on each bit of information is very difficult! :-)) the second screen just
says

Traceback (inner most last):
<NULL> <NULL>

Unfortunately I can't work out any way to access the first screen to get the
exact message.

Also, I don't have any command line interface on the Pocket PC to follow
Fred's suggestion and run Python with command line arguments set. I seem to
be limited to just running a .py file from the File Explorer.

In the "Program Filess\Python\Lib" path there is a _tkinter file but it is a
.pyd not a .dll.

Peter

"Steve Holden" <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1825.1128928745.509.python-list at python.org...
> Peter Milliken wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I (think I have :-)) installed Python on my Pocket PC (obtained from
> > http://fore.validus.com/~kashtan/).
> >
> > There were Tkinter binaries with it so I installed those as well. When I
> > attempt to run the most simplistic of python programs using Tkinter, I
get
> > an error message stating that Python can't find any tkinter module.
> >
> > Any ideas what I have done wrong anybody?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Peter
> >
> > import Tkinter
> >
> > if __name__ == '__main__':
> >   root = Tkinter.Tk()
> >
> >   root.title('Hello World?')
> >
> >   root.mainloop()
> >
> >
> Are you sure it didn't say "_tkinter" was what it couldn't find?
>
> On my Windows system the Tkinter.py file tries to import an extension
> (compiled C) module called _tkinter (provided as _tkinter.dll) that
> provides the low-level Tkinter functionality. It's likely that that's
> missing.
>
> regards
>   Steve
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